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title: The youth went down to the stable again, and very sad and sorrowful… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth went down to the stable again, and very sad and sorrowful he was, as anyone may well imagine. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 55

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The youth went down to the stable again, and very sad and sorrowful he was, as anyone may well imagine.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** go down, be

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:38:55
# text = The youth went down to the stable again, and very sad and sorrowful he was, as anyone may well imagine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the youth |  |  |  | again | to the stable; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | may · past | youth |  |  |  |  | imagine, well *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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